Practice Management

A “significant proportion” of large law firms are investing in content or ‘inbound’ marketing schemes that “simply do not work as they should” and could even be damaging their reputation.

An alternative business structure which launched as a specialist conveyancing firm with three staff in March 2019 now has more than 100 in multiple practice areas as it opens a fifth office.

Recruitment is “by far the biggest obstacle” to the growth of law firms in 2023, with lawyers being “bombarded” with job offers, while addressing ESG is becoming more urgent.

There is a “massive value gap” in commercial legal services, which are “way too expensive”, the chief executive of a leading new-wave law firm has argued.

Lawyers questioning whether they should continue working in the law have become a major feature of calls to mental wellbeing charity LawCare, its annual impact report has shown.

A legal and professional services group with a ‘house of brands’ strategy has become the largest UK legal business to be certified as a B Corporation.

A large legal aid practice with a £10m turnover was sold to a consolidator in a pre-pack just before Christmas for only £200,000 upfront, it has emerged. But the jobs of all 80 staff were saved.

Staff at Ison Harrison, one of the largest law firms to be employee owned, have each received a tax-free profit share of £3,600 after the first year of the new structure.

“Feeling underappreciated” is the most common reason why associates want to leave their law firms, a study has found, with women more likely than men to be looking to change jobs.

Medium-sized law firms could save around £400,000 every year and reduce carbon emissions by digitising paperwork, research has estimated.